Understood for page creations. The metric is named "Page creations". We ought to have a metric called "Content page creations" or "Unique content page creators".
One bit of complication: How do you feel about the draft namespace for enwiki? Should it be included in content page creations? As for edits, the correlation is so strong between edits to content and edits to other namespaces that it doesn't matter which we use when looking for trends.[1] 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Refining_the_definition_of_monthly_active_editors -Aaron On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:18 PM, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 November 2014 11:11, Howie Fung <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> - Namespace Edits and Pages Created now include pages in all namespaces >>> and pages that have been deleted. The plots for these metrics generally >>> show a step up. On wikis where most of activity occurs on pages other than >>> in namespace '0' (like Meta and Commons), you can see a dramatic difference >>> in the data [2]. >>> >>> I just spoke to Kevin about this and there may be a disconnect around >> this. >> >> For edits and pages created, it's important for us to be able to separate >> out main namespace edits and pages created from all other namespaces. >> Actual content creation happens on the main namespace, so lumping all >> namespaces together actually reduces visibility into content creation. >> > > Yeah; I was expecting this to be using $wgContentNamespaces (which varies > per wiki), rather than hard-coding either NS0 (which is wrong e.g. for > Commons or Wikidata) or all namespaces (which as Howie says is wrong > because it covers non-content work). > > J. > -- > James D. Forrester > Product Manager, Editing > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > [email protected] | @jdforrester > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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